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'I slimmed back into my wedding dress'

Grainne Walker is a 32-year-old mum-of-two from London. She felt "fabulous" fitting back into her wedding dress after her experience with Closer Diets. She tells her story here:

'I adored my wedding dress – it was figure-hugging and flattering and I felt really slim in it. I’d got down from a size 18 and 13st to a size 12 and 11st for my big day in 2008 by cutting out chocolate, crisps and takeaways. Everyone told me I looked great.

But after having my second child, Edward, last year, my diet got worse and I went back up to 12st 4lbs.

I’d have toast and jam for breakfast, a cheese and pickle sarnie for lunch and pasta with a creamy sauce for dinner.

I’d snack on biscuits, cake and crisps and my only exercise was pushing the buggy. I hated my big belly and covered up in baggy clothes.

I chose the Closerdiet plan on Closerdiets.com. Breakfast was Shreddies or Special K with semi-skimmed milk, lunch was chicken in pitta bread and dinner was pasta with spinach and tomato sauce. I’d snack on bananas, apples and cereal bars. When we went out I usually stuck to fish and salad.

We were all given membership of Feelfit.com, a website that provides exercise plans and activity targets. Steve Barrett, who runs it, suggested routines for us to do. I did the legs, bums and tums plan for about 20 minutes a few times a week – lots of sit-ups, crunches and kicks to target my problem areas. I even upped the pace when I was pushing the buggy.

I lost a pound or two most weeks. After a month, I felt slimmer and two months in, everyone was saying how good I looked. After three months I’d lost just over a stone and had dropped to just over 11st. My belly and arms slimmed down, my face looked slimmer and I was more energetic all round.

I’d always hoped I’d be slim enough to fit into my wedding dress again and felt fabulous in it at the shoot.'

Buy a copy of this week's Closer to check out the stories of the other two readers we challenged to get back into their wedding frocks with help from Closer Diets!